MARIA CALLAS ON BROADWAY?

Sing Out, Maria: Tyne Daly Brings Her ‘Master Class’ to Broadway...
----  Master Class is a portrait of opera diva Maria Callas told through her recollections of the glories, triumphs, and tragedies of her own life and career. Her voice is gone, her lover is long departed, and her sanity could possibly be next. All she has is a lonely itinerary of master classes and luggage packed full of the memories that are her only travel companion.

Maria Callas

Tyne Daly

Belcanto series- Belini & his "mad scenes"

Belini's best known opera was "Norma". "Casta Diva" is also one of my favorites.
My most beloved "Norma" was by Montserrat caballe, but I also love the Callas version...They are both DIVAS.

 Belini was young and ambitious.  In his bright and short lifespan, he longed for love, but had to place his career before everything.  In his operas, he created so many love scenes, and scenes where people went mad because of love, whereas in reality, he was lonely.  An aria "Torna, vezzosa Fillide" was an reinterpretation of a love poem given to him by his old lover.  Luckily Lawrence Brownlee, a wonderful tenor---

The lecturer used the "Mad Scene" as an example, and played several clips from Lucia diamaro, sang by Joan Sutherland.  The point, is that while other composers might make the singers going mad, which not by the nerological sense, rather it is a state of "anger", most singers blows up over sadness, then recover.